John mckenzie



(No Model.)

J. MOKENZIE.

I FAUUBT. No. 337,511. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

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a p e z' o p m JOHN MCKENZIE, OF \VEST TROY, NEWV YORK.

FAUCET.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 337,511, dated March 9, 1856.

Application filed October 19, 1855. Serial No. 180,256. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MCKENZIE, a resident of West Troy, in the county of AL. bany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in faucets for ale and other barrels.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provideakey-operated metallicfaucet adapted to be permanently inserted in a barrel from its inner side to a position about flush with its outside; second, to provide akey-operated faucet from which the key cannot be withdrawn while the faucet is open; third, to secure a metallic faucet permanently in abarrel by means of a wooden backing or frame.

The mechanism employed to accomplish these objects will be fully described in connection with the drawings, and what I claim as my invention pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a central longitudinal section of the faucet, taken at broken line w y in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the face of the faucet. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the back or inner side of the metallic faucet. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the wooden plug or backing. Fig. 5 is a side view of the key. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the face of the key. Fig. 7 is a side view of the spigot detached.

A is the beveled metallic plug, which is inserted from the inner side in a correspondinglybeveled aperture in barrelhead B. The plug is provided with a beveled circular aperture, 13, extending longitudinally through one side of the plug, and having alateral opening, m, extending into the longitudinal opening b, located on the other side of the plug, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The spigot D (shown detached in Fig. 7) is provided with an inlet at one end, consisting of numerous small holes, a, for straining the entering fluid, and at the other end with a beveled head, closed on the end, but having a lateral opening, (1, which serves as its outlet through passage m to opening 12. The closed end of the spigothead is provided with an angular depression, 6, adapted to receive the angular head e of key H, or a spur to enter a corresponding depression in the key. The head of the spigot is inserted in the beveled opening in the plug to the position shown in Fig. 1, where it is heldin place by the plate S, secured to the plug. The plate is provided with stops t t, to trip the pin P, passingthrough the spigot, and prevent the spigot from passing through more than about a quarter-turn when opened and closed by the key. The opening 2' is provided near its mouth with an annular recess or groove, 9, the depth of which is shown by the circular dotted line in Fig. 2. The recess is provided on one side of the opening i with the opening g,

adapted to receive the spur or lug f on the key when the head 6 is inserted in the corresponding depression in the face end of the spigot. The key cannot be inserted or withdrawn except when the spigot is closed andin the position shown in Fig. 2. After the key is inserted the spigot may be given a quarterturn to bring the opening (1 opposite the passage m, the spur f traveling in the groove 9, thereby opening the faucet and making a continuous passage for the fluid through apertures a into the spigot, out opening d, through passage m, and out opening I). The latter opening is threaded, as shown, to receive a correspondingly-threaded spout, of any desired form or length, which may be detached when the barrel is empty or being moved. The small apertures a prevent the entrance within the faucet of hops or other solid substances which might close it up. It is evident that the faucet is closed when the spigot is so turned that opening (2 is closed by the solid wall of the plug A.

Manufacturers and sellers of malt liquors usually retain their ownership of the barrels and casks, which are returned to them by their customers when their contents have been consumed, and it generally happens that their faucets are left open, which greatly injures the cask, making it necessary to remove its head to cleanse it and fit it again for use. If the faucet is kept closed, the cask remains sweet and clean, and it is only necessary to wash it out to render it fit for immediate use.

By s0 constructing the key and rotary spigot that the key cannot be withdrawn when the faucet is open, it necessarily follows that the faucet will be closed when the barrel is emptied, as the key will be removed, being required to open the faucet of the next cask. The wooden plug or bung 0, provided with openingj to receive the projecting end of the spigot, is beveled, like the metallic plug, and driven into the faucet-hole in the cask from the inner side to form a backing of wood for the faucet, which may be covered with shellac. This wooden plug prevents the fluid from coming in contact with the outer surface of the metallic plug and securely holds the fancet in its place in the cask, whether the latter is damp or dry. As the spigot part only of the faucet comes in contact with the inelosed fluid, when not being drawn out, the plug A may be of any kind of metal-as brass-and the spigot of another kind of metal as white metal-or of woodor other material. By havingthe plug Alongitudinally beveled, and in serting it from the inner side of the cas smaller end outward, it cannot be forced out by the inward pressure, and by beveling and inserting the spigot in the plug in the same manner the inner pressure serves to cause it to fit more tightly and render leakage impossible.

I do not wish to limit myself to the use of metal or any particular material in the con struetion of any part of the faucet.

The plug A, as well as the spigot, may be formed from wood, and the aperture 1) provided with a threaded metallic bushing, as shown partly by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a barrelhead, B, having a conical hole flaring toward the inner side, the turn-plug A, fitting said hole from the inside of barrel, and a spigot, 1), having a conical hea'l fitting a corres 'ionding hole through the plug from the inside of barrel, said plug being provided with a discharge outlet, at b, and the spigot with a side hole adapted to register therewith, all substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of October, 1885.

JOHN BICKENZIE.

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